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moots
New member | Level 2
3 months ago

Desktop folders are unavailable and switched to aliases after deleting the Dropbox app on Mac

I had deleted dropbox off of my MacBook because I was having some glitches with my files and wanted to redownload it. I had continued to save files in my folders saved on my computer that had previou...
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Mark's avatar
Mark
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3 months ago
moots wrote:

Please help me recover these folders!  

They will be inside of the \Dropbox folder on your machine - so as long as you didnt delete the Dropbox directory and just the app they are there. 

Try running a search on your hard drive for it under Finder

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    moots
    New member | Level 2
    3 months ago

    Thank you so much Mark for your response! Unfortunately, it looks like I may have accidentally deleted that too as I can't find the dropbox folder under finder...

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